Maggie Lord, of Rustic Wedding Chic, sits at her laptop Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Fairfield, Conn. After planning her own wedding in 2009, Lord turned her research into an informative blog and now a 6 figure company.

Maggie Lord, of Rustic Wedding Chic, sits at her laptop Thursday, April 10, 2014, in Fairfield, Conn. After planning her own wedding in 2009, Lord turned her research into an informative blog and now a 6 figure

FAIRFIELD -- Fairfield resident Maggie Lord has turned her personal wedding blog, Rustic Wedding Chic, into a six-figure company during her child's naptime.

Lord, 32, developed the widely popular blog used by brides in search of rustic wedding inspiration in 2009 while she was planning her own rustic wedding.

"My husband and I were getting married at my family's summer house in northern Wisconsin. I wanted to combine a rustic wedding feel with the elegance found in a place like Connecticut and I started feeling underwhelmed with what was available," she said.

Lord said she wanted her wedding to reflect the pine trees and the lake her family summered at, but found little inspiration.

"If I was looking for it, I knew other brides and couples were looking for it too, so I started blogging while planning my wedding as a way to put resources together and connect with other brides," she said.

Post-wedding, Lord said she wanted to turn the well-received blog into a full-time career and she did. Her son was born in 2011, and Lord said she had to find a way to be successful both at work and as a mother.

She said began building her business around her son's naptime.

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"Everyone tells you to sleep while your child naps, but I took that opportunity to work," she said. "It was about finding a way to run two things simultaneously in your life; you have to take it upon yourself to say I am going accomplish two blog posts, 10 emails and five phone calls and I knew that I could run the business in about 2½ hours a day when it first started."

Fast forward three years later and Lord has penned two books, "Rustic Wedding Chic," "Barn Weddings" and has a third on the way "The Rustic Wedding Handbook." In 2013, Lord launched the Rustic Wedding Guide sister site as a way for brides to research rustic wedding vendors for anything from venues to bakers to florists.

The curated site takes submissions from across the country.

"The idea came from a section on my blog called "Ask Maggie," where brides would be constantly asking me for wedding venue ideas like `Do you know a barn in north Texas?' " she said. "It's become a destination for couples."

Laura Beaudoin, 32, of Hopkinton, N.H., used Rustic Wedding Chic for inspiration when planning her rustic lodge wedding in 2012.

"I found centerpiece, sign, and venue ideas. I developed our sunflower and mason-jar theme from elements featured in some of the real weddings," she said. "My favorite section of the website is Maggie's section featuring real weddings with tips and photos from other brides." Lord said real weddings are the backbone of the site.

"A bride from Massachusetts might take some ideas from a wedding in Texas," she said. "It's nice because your wedding will touch people who didn't attend the wedding." The blog receives over one million page views per month, according to Lord.

"We focus on a niche that we felt wasn't being served, we really love to share weddings from all over the country from Maine to California and everywhere in between," she said.